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When two young women in France of 1790 discover the Montglane Chess Service in Montglane Abbey, they recognize its mystic ability to provide anyone playing it with unlimited power and desperately scatter its pieces around the world. But in 1972, computer expert Catherine "Cat" Velis is hired to recover the chess pieces--and is caught up in a nefarious, globe-spanning conspiracy.

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Two men possess vital data on Russia's Star Wars missile defense system. One isted by the KGB. The other is Jack Ryan, hero of The Hunt for Red October, ld to peace. A 4-month #1 New York Times bestseller, with 1.3 million hardcover copies in print.

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With her husband locked in a tight race for re-election, disenchanted First Lady Kate Dixon returns to the family farm to care for her injured father, accompanied by her bodyguard, Secret Service agent Bo Thorsen, who begins to suspect that Kate has been targeted by escaped mental patient David Moses and by dark forces within the federal government itself. Reprint.

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When his proposal for a ground-breaking Middle Eastern peace plan falls through, with the world on the edge of a nuclear crisis, Deputy Director of the CIA Jack Ryan calls on FBI head Dan Murray to help him avert an all-out disaster. Reissue.

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Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to the post-World War II years. With their broad canvas and large cast of fictional and historical characters, the novels in this series present a panorama of the American political and imperial experience as interpreted by one of its most worldly, knowing, and ironic observers.<br><br>The centennial of the United States was celebrated with great fanfare--fireworks, exhibitions, pious calls to patriotism, and perhaps the most underhanded political machination in the country's history: the theft of the presidency from Samuel Tilden in favor of Rutherford B. Hayes. This was the Gilded Age, when robber barons held the purse strings of the nation, and the party in power was determined to stay in power. Gore Vidal's <b>1876</b> gives us the news of the day through the eyes of Charlie Schuyler, who has returned from exile to regain a lost fortune and arrange a marriage into New York society for his widowed daughter. And although Tammany Hall has faltered and Boss Tweed has fled, the effects of corruption reach deep, even into Schuyler's own family.

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Our newest ambassador to an Iron Curtain country, Mary Ashley has been marked for death by the world's most proficient assassin. Only two people can offer her help. And one of them wants to kill her. "An entertaining, engaging mix of international intrigue, murder and sex".--Washington Post Book World.

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Fighter-jock Jake Grafton has survived his share of airborne death duels. Now he's grounded. As head of the top-secret Athena Project, he's now in charge of developing the navy's next-generation attack aircraft-a carrier-launched stealth version of the A-6 Intruder. But deep within the labyrinth of the Pentagon, a cunning Soviet network is trashing U.S. security. Behind it is the ultimate spymaster called The Minotaur: his sights are on Jake's aircraft...and his plans are for one last kill.

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When Samuel Walker Cox, the head of a major multinational corporation and major figure in world affairs, is exposed as a former Russian spy, he will stop at nothing to protect his name, even if it means going up against Net Force. Original.

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DID J. EDGAR DIE A NATURAL DEATH? . . . OR WAS HE MURDERED?Inver Brass--a group of high-minded and high-placed intellectuals who see a monstrous threat to the country in Hoovers unethical use of his scandal-ridden private files. They decide to do away with him--quietly, efficiently, with no hint of impropriety. Until best-selling thriller writer Peter Chancellor stumbles onto information that makes his precious books like harmless fairy tales. Now Chancellor and Inver Brass are on a deadly collision course, spiraling across the globe in an ever-widening arc of violence and terror. Hurtling toward a showdown that will rip Washington's intelligence community apart--leaving only one damning document to survive . . .

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'In this new work by the foremost Portuguese novelist, the reunion of five men on the tenth anniversary of their battalion's return from Mozambique, Portugal's Vietnam, ends in a fatal stabbing - which ultimately serves as an act of liberation for the corrupt city of Lisbon.' Newsday

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When a near-dead Singapore pirate is found drifting in the Celebes Sea with traces of radiation on his skin, the Op-Center team, while investigating all nuclear disposal sites, discovers that a multinational corporation, hired to dispose of nuclear waste, is actually selling it to a ruthless terrorist. Original.

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